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What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear

Have anyone of you actually calculated this ?

What's your personal ratio ?

I have not looked into this in any detail, and have if anything, only recently.....

Told family members (not my wife) 8^0..........something along the lines of ........." this piece of equipment is worth ......this (xxxx) ......." 

I have, told all family members that they could probably start an Ebay Record Selling Career; if their own career doesn't pan out.... with what is contained in the house. I don't think they are buying this idea ......right now.

This has me a little concerned.  

I assume the good records will only go up in value.  

Some gear I own, I believe is in this same state of fluctuating upward values.

Interested in your opinions, and findings on the subject.    Have you crossed this bridge yet ?  

ct0517

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lewm
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 For those who asked questions about my friend’s 2000 LP collection that he sold for $20,000, I am really not intimately aware of the general nature of the records he collected. I can only say that he was not shy about buying expensive re-issues, 45 RPM re-issues, and other audiophile level recordings when he could find them. I am sure also that  his LPs were in mint or near mint condition. There was a mixture of jazz and classical music, it seemed to me. Whenever  I visited him it was to listen to some new piece of gear that he had purchased or to give advice about why something wasn’t sounding as good as it should, so we were focusing on the system, not the music. I would bet there was no junk in his collection, because if he perceived that something was junk he got rid of it.
lewm
13,476 posts
 
A friend just sold his LP collection, around 2000 LPs, for $20,000. I was flabbergasted that the selling price was so high.  However, his system easily cost more than $100K.  Assuming he can re-sell his gear for ~$60K (60% of retail), the system is nevertheless worth more than the LPs.  But if he had owned e.g. 10,000 LPs, and if he'd been able to sell at a similar per LP price, we would have a different answer. The question is really silly, because it is so dependent upon each individual's LPs and/or gear.
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